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What does hypervolemia and hyporvolemia mean?
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Low and high volume: Hyper means high and hypo means low so increase in volume is hypervolemia and decrease is hypo.
Answered 11/7/2012
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Definition...: Hypervolemia means there is too much fluid on the body, or volume overload, and hypovolemia means there is too little fluid on the body, or dehydration.
Answered 3/26/2013
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